Pikachu Parade during weeklong Pikachu Breakout event in Yokohama The Pikachu Parade on August 7, 2016 held during the weeklong Pikachu Breakout event in the Japanese port town of Yokohama, nearby Tokyo.

Tokyo Rainbow Pride celebrates LGTB rights Colorfully dressed participants join the Rainbow Pride parade in Shibuya, Tokyo on Sunday May 8, 2016. An estimated 4000 people paraded through the streets of Shibuya on Sunday celebrating a recent increase in recognition of LGTB rights in Japan. Population of LGTB in Japan is about 7,6%. The event was organised across two days. From last year Shibuya Ward declared that people in same-sex partnerships should have many of the same rights as married couples. Major companies such as Google, Gap, Nomura also got involved in the celebrations.

Hundreds of people join in a march calling for the legalization of marijuana in Tokyo, May 1, 2016. People participated in the march calling for the legalization of marijuana, either for its medical benefits or for recreational purposes. The Global Marijuana March is an annual rally and also goes by the name of the Million Marijuana March, hundreds of thousands of people have participated in over 829 different cities in 72 countries worldwide since 1999.

This is the 4th Holi Festial in Yokohama. It is a famous spring Indian Festial, not religious, where the people paint each other the body using the color powder. The many young people gatherd to meet other people and celebrate the coming of Spring. India–Japan relations have traditionally been strong. For centuries, the people of India and Japan have engaged in cultural exchanges, primarily as a result of Buddhism which spread indirectly from India to Japan, via China and Korea. Two countries started to negotiate from 2010 about customs duties on almost 90 per cent of Japan's exports to India and 97 per cent of India's exports to Japan.

Anime Japan 2016 brings together all aspects of the “anime” industry offering an opportunity for visitors get close to creators, voice actors, idol groups, and cosplayers, and to learn about the industry. This is the third year that the exhibition is being held at Tokyo Big Sight.

Tokyo, the great lady of the East, metropolis orderly, efficient, capital of street style but also the luxury Tokyo eludes definition. Difficult to indicate a dominant style, each district has its own character and its own aesthetic language.
Fashion Week the "Tokyo Fashion Week" takes place in the fashionable Shibuya 9th floor of the skyscraper Hikarie for 6 days. I walked in and I let myself be carried by the curiosity to see these Japanese designers, but now my eyes and facing the "behind the doors of the fashion show" where they meet boys and girls who have not l`invito for the show gather to be photographed for a day of advertising, in some cases are budding designers or just people who like to be noticed in a city where the pace is so high that you can meet millions of people and not really see any.
In Tokyo, people come out early in the morning and come home very late at night. Even when there are parties or meetings after work, it makes all a tug and this, of course, influence the lifestyle and even moods, too many people do not hold up this pace and more and more people who do everything to get noticed, see, remember, where the fastest city in the world.

Kenadma World Championship 2015 A competitor performs tricks during the Kendama World Championship 2015, Catch and Flow One on One Tournament on September 11th, 2015 in Shibuya district, Tokyo, Japan. 16 finalists battled to see how many tricks they could perform with the traditional Japanese wooden toy during two 30 second slots and received marks based on skills, degree of difficulty and technique.

TodaysArt is the annual international multidisciplinary modern creativity festival in The Hague, Netherlands. Each year in the end of September, the festival offers a programme at 20 venues (in- and outdoor) in the city centre with more than 200 artists from over 25 countries, all presenting their creative vision about what Art is Today in terms of music, video and visual arts, film, photography, fashion, performing arts, theatre, contemporary dance and other disciplines and crossovers.

Yoga festival at Rinkai Park in Yokohama September 21, 2015, Yokohama, Japan: Yoga festival at Rinkai Park in Yokohama, Japan. This year the Yoga festival will be held for the 12th time, offering lessons for all levels, from beginner to advanced, and attracting about 50,000 visitors to Rinkai park.

The first trading day of the year 2016 at Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan 4, 2016, Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) starts its trading following the first session of the new year on January 4, 2016, Tokyo, Japan. The Nikkei Stock Average, which closed 2015 at its highest annual closing level in 19 years, dropped one percent to 18818.58 in the first few minutes of 2016 trading

New adults attended ceremonies and festive events across Japan on Monday to mark Coming-of-Age Day Japan, Jan.11, 2016. Coming-of-Age Day—Seijin no Hi (成人の日)—is held on the second Monday of the year. It is celebrated by those who turned 20 during the previous year or will do so before March 31 this year. Some ceremonies were held on Sunday for those young adults who have to work on Monday. To mark the occasion, women traditionally wear “furisode” kimono (only single women wear them in Japan), while most young men opt for just regular suits.
In these last twenty years there has been a decline in participation due to the demographic decline that is leading Japan to a slowly aging population.

Japan International Orchid Festival which is an exhibition and Grand Prix of Orchid and participate approximately 20 countries every year at Tokyo Dome from Feb.13, 2016. Number of Orchids is about 100,000 plants (tropical, temperate, oriental and Japanese orchids) and 3,000 varieties. In Japan, there are many Orchid growers and associations, orchid lovers. Orchid Festival visitors are about 15,000 people every year.